Boeing’s former chief technical pilot admitted to lying to regulators about the 737 Max, according to messages obtained by NBC News.
withheld "concerning" messages from 2016 between employees about a flight-control system implicated in two crashes of the 737 Max, deepening the manufacturer's crisis over the jets that have been grounded worldwide since March.
That system is at the heart of investigations into two fatal crashes. Investigators have implicated the system in both crashes — a Lion Air 737 Max that went down in Indonesia in October 2018 and an Ethiopian Airlines plane of the same model that crashed in March.
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